Acharya's post 167 above is more important, obviously.
But here's another report about the usual disgusting stuff - minus the horrors of the rest of the article:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...Id=6742968
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Exposing Scandal in the Church: Key Players</b>
by Thomas Pierce
NPR.org, January 11, 2007
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<b>Evidence presented at trial demonstrated that cases of clergy sexual abuse were not isolated incidents, as Roman Catholic Church officials had argued before, during a similar scandal (see James Potter, below). In fact, as more reports surfaced in the wake of the Geoghan trial, clergy abuse was revealed to be a systemic problem in the Church</b> â especially in the Boston Archdiocese.
Repercussions from the trial continue to be felt. Some Catholic dioceses have filed for bankruptcy after doling out millions of dollars in civil-lawsuit settlements. Due to budget crunches, the Boston Archdiocese consolidated some parishes and closed others. Alleged victims, most from the 1970s and '80s, are still coming forward with their stories.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->(Image caption
Protestors gather in Boston, Mass., as parishioners file into the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. When evidence was presented that Cardinal Bernard Law had known about Geoghan's behavior but had done nothing to stop him, Law was forced to resign. Getty Images © 2002 <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Why is it that other 'holy' men keep protecting the villains but not the victims? I don't get this at all. What kind of losers are they? In my view, they're just as bad as the criminals they're protecting.
But here's another report about the usual disgusting stuff - minus the horrors of the rest of the article:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...Id=6742968
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Exposing Scandal in the Church: Key Players</b>
by Thomas Pierce
NPR.org, January 11, 2007
[...]
<b>Evidence presented at trial demonstrated that cases of clergy sexual abuse were not isolated incidents, as Roman Catholic Church officials had argued before, during a similar scandal (see James Potter, below). In fact, as more reports surfaced in the wake of the Geoghan trial, clergy abuse was revealed to be a systemic problem in the Church</b> â especially in the Boston Archdiocese.
Repercussions from the trial continue to be felt. Some Catholic dioceses have filed for bankruptcy after doling out millions of dollars in civil-lawsuit settlements. Due to budget crunches, the Boston Archdiocese consolidated some parishes and closed others. Alleged victims, most from the 1970s and '80s, are still coming forward with their stories.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->(Image caption
Protestors gather in Boston, Mass., as parishioners file into the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. When evidence was presented that Cardinal Bernard Law had known about Geoghan's behavior but had done nothing to stop him, Law was forced to resign. Getty Images © 2002 <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Why is it that other 'holy' men keep protecting the villains but not the victims? I don't get this at all. What kind of losers are they? In my view, they're just as bad as the criminals they're protecting.